Hello Angie, On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, angie ahl wrote:
> >but it's unusual for it not to be there. What's the output of 'httpd -l'? > >That will tell you if mod_so is in there. > > root# /home/httpd/sbin/httpd -l > Compiled-in modules: > http_core.c > mod_env.c > mod_log_config.c > mod_mime.c > mod_negotiation.c > mod_status.c > mod_include.c > mod_autoindex.c > mod_dir.c > mod_cgi.c > mod_asis.c > mod_imap.c > mod_actions.c > mod_userdir.c > mod_alias.c > mod_access.c > mod_auth.c > mod_setenvif.c > mod_perl.c > suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /home/httpd/sbin/suexec Clearly mod_so isn't there, so you probably need to reconfigure with '--enable-module=so' and then recomplile Apache and mod_perl as before. If you're as confused as I was when I first compiled mod_perl, you might want to know that the Apache binary (http) can be built with everything liked into it statically, or with almost everything linked at run-time (dynamically) which trades off execution speed against memory usage - or so they tell me. But to load things dynamically at run-time Apache needs mod_so compiled into it statically, since it is mod_so which is needed to load DSO modules. That is *any* DSO modules, not just mod_perl. And in fact I always link mod_perl static if I can, even if I have other modules loaded dynamically (which is rare). You also might want to know that the '--enable-module=so' can go on the command line when you configure Apache, for example: ./configure --enable-module=so There are a few places in the docs that talk about the use of 'configure' in this way, but you don't have to type the 'configure' command at all. I personally prefer to let Makefile.PL do it for me, by using a file called makepl_ags.mod_perl which I put in the mod_perl source tree, i.e. in my systems in a directory where I build mod_perl: /home/ged/src/mod_perl-1.29 Then I can just save that file for later re-use or modification. Saves a lot of typing. In the example supplied with the mod_perl distribution (at least in version 1.29) there's a line: ADD_MODULE=proxy,usertrack,unique_id,info,status which you'd want to change to something like ADD_MODULE=so,proxy,usertrack,unique_id,info,status or you could even just use ADD_MODULE=so if you knew you didn't need the rest of that stuff. Of course you proably don't know, so I'll suggest that you probably don't care just at the moment. :) It doesn't matter, it will work either way but there'll be a few features not available. 73, Ged. -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
